Fortunately for us our dear grandparents, uncles and aunts were lovingly communicative, reheai-sing to us of the third generation the local annals of the manor and the familiar facts of the revolutionary era ; little episodes as lively as any that Fenimore Cooper has woven into his romance of the 'Spy.' These incidental stories of the home life that followed the establishment of Independence and the 'Union' were equally winning, making us acquainted with our kindred and neighbors, with our parents, associates in their early days throughout rural and suburban surroundings.

" Prominent among these was Dr. Richard Bayley, the only brother of my grandfather, whose mother was a Huguenot, nee Susanne Leconte, and whose eminently distinguished daughter, Eliza Ann Bayley Seton, has been historically recognized as the presiding genius of the Roman Catholic academic institute at Emmetsburg, Md., and the founder of the order of the Sisters of Charity in the United States. Dr. Bayley, hnnself, a favorite student of the celebrated Hunter, of London, the first professor in the medical department of Columbia College, an accepted authority as a professional writer in England and France," though living within an enTiromnent of churchly influences at home, acknowledged no connection with any ecclesiastical organism. Hence, the position of his accomplished daughter, biographically connnemorated as ' Mother Seton,' the gifted educator, as well as the founder, of the most eminent sisterhood (and we may add here, parenthetically, the more recent positions of his grandson, James Roosevelt Bayley, as having been, at first, rector of the Episcojial Church, at Harlem, and tlien, at last, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Baltimore, Prinuite of America) seems the more particularly noteworthy. In a widening circle of relationships thus made up there could be evidently no lack of conversational topics adajited to keep us all mentally alive and wide-awake to note the driftings of thought throughout the whole community, so recently set free from the regime of a colonial church establishment, whoso ideal aim had been, of course, the legal maintenance of religious uniformity.